top of the hour this wednesday. i m jim sciutto. and i am erica hill. right now several key hearings happening on capitol hill. a pretty busy day in washington. this hour lawmakers will grill active administrator billy nolan after multiple close calls on the runway and some of the aviation incidents sparking safety concerns. also federal reserve chairman jerome powell appearing before lawmakers for the second day defending his decisions to raise interest rates in an effort to tamp down inflation. we re also watching the top u.s. intelligence officials testify, among them fbi director chris wray, the director of national intelligence avril haynes as what they see the biggest global threats facing the u.s. today. cnn s melanie is live on capitol hill today. several events and several bits of testimony on the hill today. walk us through what you re watching. yeah. a very busy day here on capitol hill. we are tracking a number of high-profile hearings, and i want to walk yo
that and more, we will be following all day on cnn, cnn s new central, thank you for joining us in its new central covering all of these stories, and it starts right now. we re keeping a close eye on breaking news is israel says dozens of rockets have been fired into the region fired into israel from lebanon. we re live there in moments will they be expelled one hour from now? republicans in tennessee will begin a vote to kick out three democratic state lawmakers. this all has to do with the debate over gun reforms and protests after nashville school shooting. and a training exercise gone wrong. in boston, the fbi breaks down the door of a hotel room throws. the occupant in handcuffs, pushes him into a shower and interrogates him for an hour. there s one problem, though. the fbi made a mistake those stories and many more right here on cnn news, central . alright the breaking news, everyone a major escalation in the middle east right now is really defense forces say dozens of
questions about the scientific evidence provided by the fda supporting its safety. the fifth circuit court of appeals, then froze parts of that texas judge s ruling but still left significant restrictions on this distribution. it prohibited pills sent by mail narrowed the window of its availability and blocked healthcare providers who are not doctors from prescribing the pills. this new ruling by the supreme court, requested by the vitamin ist rations removes all restrictions while the continues. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider joins us now with more so the justices had until midnight. the ruling didn t come down until well into the evening. do we know why well, we ve been waiting for this a week. anderson after that initial kind of extension on wednesday as well, and it s likely that justice alito, who is the one who wrote he needed time to maybe write this four page dissent, and it s possible even that during their conference this morning, maybe the justices wer
country like just stashed on his person or in his home, giving them out. how in the world does that happen? shocking and it raises so many questions that we re going to get to this morning. it s one of many big stories we re covering. so let s get to the five things to know for this friday, april the 14th as we were just talking about the suspect in the leak of classified million terry documents will be arraigned in court today. federal court the fbi arrested him in massachusetts yesterday. officials tell cnn he s just 21 years old and he is a national guardsmen. alright, so that s a massachusetts and then in florida governor there. ron desantis has signed a six week abortion ban into law. the white house condemned it as extreme and dangerous. the man accused of killing tech exec bob lee set to appear in court today in san francisco. police say the suspect was someone lee knew also magic johnson maybe close to owning part of the washington commanders were told that deal is ne
welcome to our viewers in the u.s., canada and all around the world. ahead on cnn, newsroom. calls for justice and cities across the u.s. after the brutal beating of nichols. the controversial police unit linked to his death has been dismantled. palestinian tensions soaring, now israel s minister is outlining a new plan. new zealand s most populous city begins to recover after devastating and deadly flooding. alive from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with layla. the memphis police department announced the permanent and to a special anticrime unit known as scorpion. the move comes one day after the city released police videos of five officers beating nichols on generate 27. police have confirmed all of the officers were with the special unit. some of the images you are about to see maybe disturbing. scorpion was created over a year ago in response to rising homicides and violent crime. why the officers targeted nichols that night is unclear. nichols was unarmed and